I've been experimenting with a ten gallon Chinese porcelain bowl as a suitable aquarium over the years. I'd had pretty good success using a Fluval cannister set up and a couple of sprigs of anubias barteri The bowl gets about an hour of direct sunlight a day. Things were fine until I started...

Ok so if I have a huge bag of denitrifying bacteria media which is denitrifying in my tank, no aggression at all except for maybe like male keyhole chiclids or rainbows sizing each other up, is it possible to stock more, my friend says yes because If the fish aren’t fighting/are stressed or have...

Here is my 10 gallon blackwater rio Orinoco biotope which uses the walstad method, I’m considering submitting it into the BADC2021 contest. Any advice to make it better? It has 4 celithacara maronii (keyhole chiclid) and 10 nannostromus beckfordI (beckfords pencilfish) my goal is to get into...

Ok so I have made threads about stocking my tank and people are saying my furcata will be outcompeted. Knowing that furcata are surface fish, my fish tend not to be surface feeders. If I just gave them small food on the surface and made sure they got to it would it be fine? also lots of my fish...

Hi natural scapers, I passed up just the other week on the opportunity of trying the Walstad approach when re-scaping a small 2.5G tank because I didn‘t know about it. So, no soil but gravel, heavily planted nevertheless, ferts when needed. Just yesterday I incorporated her siesta lighting...